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2008-09-23mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutexNick Piggin
tiny-shmem calls do_truncate in shmem_file_setup. do_truncate takes i_mutex, and shmem_file_setup is called with mmap_sem held. However i_mutex nests outside mmap_sem. Copy the code in shmem.c to avoid this problem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23sys_paccept: disable paccept() until API design is resolvedMichael Kerrisk
The reasons for disabling paccept() are as follows: * The API is more complex than needed. There is AFAICS no demonstrated use case that the sigset argument of this syscall serves that couldn't equally be served by the use of pselect/ppoll/epoll_pwait + traditional accept(). Roland seems to concur with this opinion (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/723953/focus=732255). I have (more than once) asked Ulrich to explain otherwise (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/723952/focus=731018), but he does not respond, so one is left to assume that he doesn't know of such a case. * The use of a sigset argument is not consistent with other I/O APIs that can block on a single file descriptor (e.g., read(), recv(), connect()). * The behavior of paccept() when interrupted by a signal is IMO strange: the kernel restarts the system call if SA_RESTART was set for the handler. I think that it should not do this -- that it should behave consistently with paccept()/ppoll()/epoll_pwait(), which never restart, regardless of SA_RESTART. The reasoning here is that the very purpose of paccept() is to wait for a connection or a signal, and that restarting in the latter case is probably never useful. (Note: Roland disagrees on this point, believing that rather paccept() should be consistent with accept() in its behavior wrt EINTR (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/723953/focus=732255).) I believe that instead, a simpler API, consistent with Ulrich's other recent additions, is preferable: accept4(int fd, struct sockaddr *sa, socklen_t *salen, ind flags); (This simpler API was originally proposed by Ulrich: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/92072) If this simpler API is added, then if we later decide that the sigset argument really is required, then a suitable bit in 'flags' could be added to indicate the presence of the sigset argument. At this point, I am hoping we either will get a counter-argument from Ulrich about why we really do need paccept()'s sigset argument, or that he will resubmit the original accept4() patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changesMarin Mitov
Make the example code consistent with changed API. Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@ispp.bas.bg> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entryJonathan Steel
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading a kernel image into memory. The fault occurs because a page is requested by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER. The high mem page is returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel page being a page that will shortly be copied to. This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created with the correct gfp flags. I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original patch. Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the problem. -- Eric Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23kernel-doc: allow structs whose members are all privateRandy Dunlap
Struct members may be marked as private by using /* private: */ before them, as noted in Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt Fix kernel-doc to handle structs whose members are all private; otherwise invalid XML is generated: xmlto: input does not validate (status 3) linux-2.6.27-rc6-git4/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.xml:146: element variablelist: validity error : Element variablelist content does not follow the DTD, expecting ((title , titleabbrev?)? , varlistentry+), got () Document linux-2.6.27-rc6-git4/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.xml does not validate make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.html] Error 3 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23smb.h: do not include linux/time.h in userspaceKirill A. Shutemov
linux/time.h conflicts with time.h from glibc It breaks building smbmount from samba. It's regression introduced by commit 76308da (" smb.h: uses struct timespec but didn't include linux/time.h"). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()Akinobu Mita
__asr_toggle() is always called with asr_lock held. But there is unnecessary spin_unlock() call in __asr_toggle(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23signals: demultiplexing SIGTRAP signal, fixSrinivasa Ds
fix build breakage, missing header file. Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fixup buddy selectionPeter Zijlstra
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the TIF_RESCHED flag set. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settingsPeter Zijlstra
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks. Also add some comments while we're there. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: add some comments to the bandwidth codePeter Zijlstra
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fixlet for group load balancePeter Zijlstra
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-23x86, microcode rework, v2, renaming cont.Peter Oruba
Renaming based on patch from Dmitry Adamushko. Further clarification by renaming define and variable related to microcode container file. Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23x86, microcode rework, v2, renamingPeter Oruba
Renaming based on patch from Dmitry Adamushko. Made code more readable by renaming define and variables related to microcode _container_file_ header to make it distinguishable from microcode _patch_ header. Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.cTheodore Ts'o
...and into the core setup/teardown code in fs/ext4/super.c so that other parts of ext4 can define tuning parameters. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23sched: rework wakeup preemptionPeter Zijlstra
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policiesMartin Steigerwald
The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling policies it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information for it in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2 Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23signals: demultiplexing SIGTRAP signalSrinivasa Ds
Currently a SIGTRAP can denote any one of below reasons. - Breakpoint hit - H/W debug register hit - Single step - Signal sent through kill() or rasie() Architectures like powerpc/parisc provides infrastructure to demultiplex SIGTRAP signal by passing down the information for receiving SIGTRAP through si_code of siginfot_t structure. Here is an attempt is generalise this infrastructure by extending it to x86 and x86_64 archs. Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23Merge branch 'x86/signal' into core/signalIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c arch/x86/kernel/setup.c drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23ALSA: ASoC: maintainers - update email address for Liam GirdwoodLiam Girdwood
This patch updates the maintainers email address for Liam Girdwood and adds a URL for the ASoC website. Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-09-23timers: fix build error in !oneshot caseIngo Molnar
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’: kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23x86: moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.cDmitry Adamushko
Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent). Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h into their respective arch-specific .c files. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23tcp: Fix queue traversal in tcp_use_frto().David S. Miller
We must check tcp_skb_is_last() before doing a tcp_write_queue_next(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSCAndreas Herrmann
Impact: Functional TSC is marked unstable on AMD family 0x10 and 0x11 CPUs. This would be wrong because for those CPUs "invariant TSC" means: "The TSC counts at the same rate in all P-states, all C states, S0, or S1" (See "Processor BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guides" for those CPUs.) [ tglx: Changed C1E to AMD C1E in the printks to avoid confusion with Intel C1E ] Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machinesThomas Gleixner
Impact: System hang when AMD C1E machines switch into C2/C3 AMD C1E enabled systems do not work with normal ACPI C-states even if the BIOS is advertising them. Limit the C-states to C1 for the ACPI processor idle code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu onlineThomas Gleixner
Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code can pick up the next_event value correctly. Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: check broadcast device not tick deviceThomas Gleixner
Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines. The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup first. The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens. The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUsThomas Gleixner
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode. The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/onlineThomas Gleixner
Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems. When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle. Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohzThomas Gleixner
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online. tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can have this state: boot: necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0 nohz long idle sleep: When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep jiffies going. Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz / highres mode of the already running system. Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic numbers confusion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warningHarvey Harrison
kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: clarify ifdef tangleAndrew Morton
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer - Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warningRakib Mullick
LD kernel/built-in.o WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_hrtick() to the variable .cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 The function init_hrtick() references the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8. This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong. Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module loadRavikiran G Thirumalai
27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules. Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3). vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however, apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to freed memory location. Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module" Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23tcp: Fix order of tests in tcp_retransmit_skb()David S. Miller
tcp_write_queue_next() must only be made if we know that tcp_skb_is_last() evaluates to false. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23ppp_generic: Use skb_peek() in ppp_receive_mp_frame().David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23x86: fix macro with bad_bios_dmi_tableYinghai Lu
DMI tables need a blank NULL tail. fixes the crash on Ingo's test box. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23[WATCHDOG] unlocked_ioctl changesWim Van Sebroeck
Fix some drivers so that they use the unlocked_ioctl call. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-09-23neigh: Remove by-hand SKB queue handling.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23[WATCHDOG] wdt285: fix sparse warningsBen Dooks
The wdt285.c watchdog driver is producing a number of sparse errors due to missing __user attributes to calls to put_user and copy_to_user, as well as in the prototype of watchdog_write. wdt285.c:144:21: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) wdt285.c:144:21: expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*to wdt285.c:144:21: got void *<noident> wdt285.c:150:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) wdt285.c:150:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p wdt285.c:150:9: got int *<noident> wdt285.c:159:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) wdt285.c:159:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p wdt285.c:159:9: got int *<noident> wdt285.c:174:9: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) wdt285.c:174:9: expected int const [noderef] <asn:1>*register __p wdt285.c:174:9: got int *<noident> wdt285.c:183:12: warning: incorrect type in initializer (incompatible argument 2 (different address spaces)) wdt285.c:183:12: expected int ( *write )( ... ) wdt285.c:183:12: got int ( static [toplevel] *<noident> )( ... ) Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23pkt_sched: Remove the tx queue state check in qdisc_run()Jarek Poplawski
The current check wrongly uses the state of one (currently the first) tx queue for all tx queues in case of non-default qdiscs. This check mainly prevented requeuing loop with __netif_schedule(), but now it's controlled inside __qdisc_run(), while dequeuing. The wrongness of this check was first noticed by Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23[WATCHDOG] ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()Akinobu Mita
__asr_toggle() is always called with asr_lock held. But there is unnecessary spin_unlock() call in __asr_toggle(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23tcp: Use SKB queue handling interfaces instead of by-hand versions.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23net: Add skb_queue_walk_from() and skb_queue_walk_from_safe().David S. Miller
These will be used by TCP write queue handling and elsewhere. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23net: Add skb_queue_next().David S. Miller
A lot of code wants to iterate over an SKB queue at the top level using it's own control structure and iterator scheme. Provide skb_queue_next(), which is only valid to invoke if skb_queue_is_last() returns false. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23tcp: Use skb_queue_is_last() instead of by-hand version.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23net: Add skb_queue_is_last().David S. Miller
Several bits of code want to know "is this the last SKB in a queue", and all of them implement this by hand. Provide an common interface to make this check. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23usbatm: Use skb_queue_walk_safe() instead of by-hand implementation.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23zd1211: Use skb_queue_walk() instead of by-hand implementation.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>